Jamal Fanaian

(407) 479-7533
jamal.fanaian@gmail.com

Experienced and motivated web developer looking for a new opportunity to share my experience and improve my skills.

Work Experience

  • Over five years of experience in web development.
  • Integrated sales with the Disneyland API to provide real-time order confirmation and creation of PDF voucher.
  • Contributing to open source projects such as Launchpad and Gwibber.
  • Created an email campaign manager using Zend Framework that sends weelky to a mailing list of over 10,000 subscribers and report statistics on the number of opens, clicks, bounces, and unsubscribes each campaign receives.
    • Lead developer for the rebuild of JTA (www.jta.org) using ExpressionEngine, which required extensive customization as modules and extensions to provide the features required by the project. Created a completely custom gallery system that allowed the client to upload and crop images, load videos uploaded to YouTube, and organize galleries and link them to stories. Also created a module to add social networking capabilities that the members of the site can use to share stories, friend other users and communicate from within JTA.
  • Integrated a Lucene index into Heather The Realtor (www.heathertherealtor.com) to optimize the MLS search which contains roughly 70,000 listings for Central Florida.
  • Lead developer for Atlantic Advisors (www.atlanticadvisors.com), a custom web site with a full content management system and member registration/approval built using the Symfony framework, which also used Lucene indexing for searching.
  • Assisted in the development of Fore Linksters (www.forelinksters.com), a golf course directory and review site, built using CakePHP.
  • Maintained and managed BroadcastBid.com, an auction application targeted to radio stations.
  • Lead developer for JobMatchPro (www.jobmatchpro.com), a job search and resume hosting site that provided the ability to upload video resumes and was based on a proprietary video hosting application built on PHP.

Skills

  • Development with PHP, and experience using Zend Framework, CakePHP, Symfony, Code Igniter, and ExpressionEngine
  • Python development, and experience using Django, PyGTK
  • Experience with databases such as MySQL, Postgresql, MS SQL, and CouchDB
  • Experience interacting with web services and APIs that use XML, JSON, REST and regular GET/POST
  • Client side scripting with Javascript, HTML, XHTML, CSS and jQuery
  • Versioning using Subversion, Bazaar and GIT
  • Extensive experience working on Linux and Windows
  • Linux system administration (Debian, Red Hat)
  • Team leadership
  • Bi-lingual (Spanish and English)

Work History

  • Entertainment Benefits Group, Inc. (2009-2010)
  • Nextelligence, Inc. (2009)
  • Hydra Studio (2008-2009)
  • Web2Corp / Nextelligence, Inc. (2006-2008)
  • The Christensen Group (2006)
  • World Financial Marketing (2005-2006)

Community

  • Member of the Ubuntu Florida LoCo, Orlando PHP User's Group, and Orlando Python User's Group
  • Approved Ubuntu Member

Open Source

  • Created GrooveNotify, a small script that listens to Grooveshark Desktop to display current song notifications using libnotify
  • Started Pandamon, an experimental server and web application to offer the ability to stream live video and rely on open standards
  • Created a website for the Zeitgeist project using Django
  • Contributing to Launchpad and Gwibber

Education

  • University of Central Florida - Working on a B.S. In Computer Science
  • Seminole Community College - Graduated with an A.A. - 2007
  • Crooms Academy of Information Technology - Graduated - 2005